Reynoldston

The Community Broadband project which worked!

Dave Harvey and Gerard Turley

During early 2003 it appeared that the roll-out of BT's ADSL would not include villages such as Reynoldston, so an informal group started to look at satellite based alternatives. The costs for commercially managed systems were unrealistic, and so we decided to look at a community project.

Installation of the satellite system was initially trouble-free, but still a number of challenges became apparent and had to be overcome Now three years later, the system is still in use much appreciated by the community, and remains in use by roughly the same number of users, despite the availability of ADSL. Every year we expect to see loss of customer numbers, and think it will be time to wind-up the system, but every year so far we are proven wrong!

Wednesday 8th February 2007
Refreshments: 6:30pm
Presentation: 7:00pm

Room 3.07, New Building, Computer Science Department, Cardiff University, The Parade (off Newport Road), Cardiff

Event Link:
http://southwales.bcs.org/event-2007-02-08.htm

All BCS events are open to the public and we would encourage anyone who has an interest in computing, the professional IT industry, an interest in the subject matter or who simply want the chance to meet others in the industry to feel free to come along on the night.

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